Fabric-measuring machine



Z. G. HABERMAN.

FABRIC MEASURING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED FEB- $1918.

Patented Oct. 19, 1920.

auouuq UNITED s ATss zmvo c. HABERMAN, or GARDEN CITY, scorn DAKOTA.

v FABRIdMEAsURING MACHINELW Application filed February 16, 1918. Serial No. 217,631.

T0 aZlwhomit may concern: Be it known that I, ZENO C. ,HABERMAN,

citizen of theUnited States, residingat 1 Garden City, in the county ofClark and State of South Dakota, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fabric-Measur ing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to measuring devices, and one ob ect is to provide means especially adapted for measuring oilcloth as it is being unwound from the original roll and again wound into a roll for delivery to the customer.

A further object is to provide in a device of the type indicated a framework including means for supporting a winding rod or the like, this rod being slotted longitudinally for engaging the material to be measured, means for receiving the roll from which the oilcloth is unwound, and measuringmeans supported by the framework and located between the roll receiving means and the rod or roller upon which the oilcloth is to be wound prior to delivery.

A still further object is to provide a measuring device including a rotatable member mounted within a suitable casing and actuating means therefor including a rotatable member mounted between the roll of cloth, and the aforesaid slotted rod or roll.

With theforegoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of elements hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a view of the device in end elevation.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the upper portion of the structure looking from the left in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a detaili view of an indicating device, parts being broken away.

Fig. 1- is an edge view-of 'certainof the elements of the indicating device used in the construction shown in Fig. 1.

A framework 10 is provided with any suitable supporting devices such as 12, for receiving a plurality of rolls of oilcloth or the like, and upon this frame are mounted a plurality of standardslil and 14, these standards being slotted at their upper ends as shown at 15 and supporting a rod or roller 16, upon which the, material to be 'nects the standards,

Specificationof Letters Patent.) Patent d.o t '19 1920;

measured and delivered is wound. vThis V roller 16 is slottedlongitudinally as shown at 1 7 and isprovided with a collar or collars 18 for retaining the material within the slotted portion at the time thewinding operation is started. Rod 16 is operated by means of a crank 19. A longitudinal rod 20 connects the upper portions of standards 13.and l4.

An upwardly inclined plate 22 extends longitudinally of the framework and conbeing slotted longitudinally throughout its length as shown in 23, whereby any suitable cutting implement maybe employed and guided during the operation of severingsthe sheet of material after having been measured. a i

The [roll of material to be measured is designated 24' and is carried within any suitable supporting means as shown at 25, the material passing therefrom upwardly between rollerl26 and the small pressure roller 27, and thence to the slotted roller 16. In the drawings the element 25 is shown as being of trough-like formation, one side of the trough presenting a surface positioned to guide the sheet of material being unrolled 1Lasnd measured directly to the inclinedmeml er.

This permits rolls of different widths (and perhaps wound on wooden rolls of different lengths), to be measured, without ;.the adjustment of any supporting devices,

such as bearings for the ends of the wooden rolls. The shaft 28 carrying roller 26 is provided with a pinion 29 meshing with a gear wheel 30 mounted 011 a shaft 31. A pinion 32 on shaft 31 meshes with the gear wheel 33 carried rigidly with disk 34 upon a common sp1ndle 34 the disk constltuting an indicating device, and having graduations indicating yards and fractions of yards. Thev indicating device may be .mounted in .an a

3 suitable casing as shown at 35.

As shown in Fig. 1 the inclined member istangential with reference tothe surface of the rollzbeing unwound, due to the relative position of the inclined member and trough, and the material is unwound in the most natural and direct manner possible.

In Fig. 3 I have shown anotherform of indicating device comprising a ring member 38 provided with a series of graduations indicating yards and fractions of yards, and

with a series of apertures 39 with which the pinion 4O meshes, this pinion last named corresponding to pinion 32 on shaft 31 previously referred to.

clined member, the latter being tangential with reference to the roll to be unwound,

and the inclinedv member being tangential with reference to the surface of the rotary tary member adapted to bear against the rmateria-l to be measured, a gear wheel carried thereby, a shaft, a gear wheel on said shaft meshing with the gear wheel first named, an indicating device and a gear wheel carried thereby, and means carried by the shaft meshing with the gear wheel last named.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ZENO o. HABERMAN.

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